VIETNAM WAR MEMOIR GIVES VOICE
They came in at 2:00 a.m. without any warning. The screaming roar from the rockets' propellant was deafening, and all my senses froze as I tried to figure out what was happening. When the rockets came over our hooches on their way to our helicopters 150 meters north of our living quarters, they were no higher than one hundred feet above us. . . .
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LEARN ABOUT BOB
From July 1967 to July 1968, Bob Ford
flew over one thousand missions in Vietnam. After the first six weeks, he became an aircraft commander and took over the command of a helicopter detachment at Hue, forty miles from the DMZ—the farthest northern helicopter unit in Vietnam.
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